Dear friend. R.D. Webb of Dublin has added to his many kindnesses the giving me an occasion + an excuse for writing you. In his last letter he says, having heard that to recruit a little you were about to cross the Atlantic, -'I would be glad thou' would tell her that we have heard' of such a possibility - + that we are' only glad of it because it gives us' the hope of seeing James + herself again' Hannah + myself would rejoice to see' her + hope when they come, they' will make our house their home in' Dublin. Tell her we have no character

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â to lose by the visit, for that every body,' who knows us, knows that her portrait hangs' in our drawing room, between the desk'( she stood writing at the evening. she and' Garrison were with us ) + the door'I only add my wish that I could stand with you any where under Richard's roof, + that you may find all you seek in the voyage. Please Remember me to your husband + believe me, Yours truly Wendell Phillips

July 3rd. 1845.